TICKELL'S SHORT-TAILED SIBIA. 
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Genus SIBIA, Hodgs, 
44. SIBIA PICAOIDES. 
THE LONG-TAILED SIBIA. 
Sibia picaoides, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. viii. p. 38 j Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 55 ; Hume, 
Nests and Eygs, p. 268 ; Wald. Ibis, 1876, p. 354 ; Hume ^ Dav. 8. F. vi. 
p. 294 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 97 j Scully, S. F. viii. p. 293. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole plumage bluish, brown or 
glaucous^ paler beneath ; forehead and lores brown ; wings dark brown, 
becoming black on the tertiaries, four of the secondaries with a white patch 
on the outer webs ; tail brown, each feather tipped white. 
Bill horny black ; irides scarlet ; feet greyish dusky ; claws horny black. 
[Scully.) 
Length about 13 inches, tail 8, wing 4*7, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape 1*1. 
The Long-tailed Sibia was procured in Karennee by Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay, at an elevation of 5000 feet. Colonel Tickell, in his ^ Illustra- 
tions of Indian Ornithology,'' states that he killed this species in Tenas- 
serim, at an elevation of 3000 feet, and that it inhabits the whole Eastern 
Himalaya and along the Malayan spur. 
It occurs in Nipal, Sikhim and Bhootan, and it has also been observed 
in the Dafla hills in Assam. 
Dr. Jerdon states that it associates in flocks o£ six or seven and flies 
from tree to tree, feeding both on fruit and insects, and keeping up a con- 
tinual whistling sort of call. Dr. Scully observes that it frequents silk- 
cotton trees singly or in pairs, feeding on the flowers like Chibia hottentota. 
Mr. Gammie found a nest in Sikhim, a cup made of herbaceous plants 
and lined with grass ; and the eggs, five in number, were greyish white, 
speckled with brown and purple. 
Genus MALACIAS, Cahanis. 
45. MALACIAS MELANOLEUCUS. 
TICKELL^S SHORT-TAILED SIBIA. 
Sibia melanoleuca {Tick.), Bl J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 413 : Wald. Ibis, 1876, p. 35 ; 
Bl. B. Burm. p. 108 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 293. Sibia picata, Tick. 
J. A. S B. xxviii. p. 451. Malacias melanoleucus, Hume, S. F. viii. p. 97. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead, crown, nape, chin, lores and 
cheeks black; ear-coverts, sides of neck and the upper plumage rich 
